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Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Thinking of giving the Philosophy Booth a brand overhaul, but was told by legal we cannot call it "Philosophers in Booths Getting Coffee".

Legal also clarified that we are allowed to call it a booth even if we're using a booth facade.

TONIGHT!
8PM - 10PM EST
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Hidden human labor is distorting perceptions of AGI At a Warner Bros studio near Hollywood in the fall of 2024, Tesla staged a glitzy showcase of its AI progress. Acting as master of ceremonies, Elon Musk introdu

I had the opportunity to talk with Thomas Macaulay for his recent piece about the invisible human labor behind #AI. Published today in @agiethicsnews.bsky.social. And it's always a pleasure to share the spotlight with the incomparable Julie Carpenter. agi.fightersteel.com/hidden-human...

Most surefire way to raise Bluesky's hackles is to use the term AI in a non-disparaging way, no matter the context. It just shuts off the critical thinking region of the brain entirely, granting direct access to the id.

That feeling when you realize your training in philosophy has uniquely prepared you for this moment.

Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Tonight on Philosophy Booth we prepare the coveted Philosopher's Tone! Mix equal parts pedant, poet, and dry wit, add Australian to taste. Also: 10 tips to make sure you don't stumble on the words "twater" and "tharthritis" in next week's lecture!

TONIGHT!
8PM - 10PM EST
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Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

It's the first Friday of December, which means it's time for the last Philosophy Booth of 2025!

If you have questions, we meandering have follow up questions that say more about us than about your question, which we have already forgotten.

TONIGHT!
8pm-10pm EST
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No Philosophy Booth tonight, friends.

Take care of yourself. Be good to each other. ♥️

Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Where did philosophy start? In the agora.
And what do you find in the agora? Booths. Lots of booths.

We're taking philosophy back to its roots. It's The Philosophy Booth!

TONIGHT, and the first Friday of every month
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Legend tells of a structure so immense that it could contain the very act of thinking itself, bottled up and displayed for the disinterested amusement of passers by.

Behold: THE BOOTH

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Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

First Friday of the Month means it's time for Philosophy Booth!

Tonight we are offering ontic recognition for anyone who can prove they exist. And if you stare into the void where prohibited, you may find the void in yourself prohibited too.

TONIGHT
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Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Philosophers gather in booths as explosions pepper the sky. Philosophy Booth tonight! Gather with us and ponder.

1st Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!!
8pm-10pm EDT
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Me (a contrarian): "The moon will go in, yesterday"

Thousands in the rain in Montclair NJ #nokings

Picture with richROT the metal trash can robot standing on the Philosophy Booth, a wooden cart on wheels. Text says: PHILOSOPHY BOOTH First Friday of the month 8-10pm ET Professional Philosophers and philosophy-adjacent persons Music and sound effects and other tricks Participate virtually in the chat or on Zoom Give us a piece of your mind twitch.tv/askaphilosopher

Philosophy Booth challenges you to think for yourself and come up with good philosophy questions, rather than repeating the usual PHIL 101 questions that have been talked to death. Are you up for the challenge?

1st Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!!
8pm-10pm EDT
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Ms. Muscle and comrades on the Ms. Muscle Monument Tour. Ms. Muscle, an vibrant elderly woman with short white hair, is front and center in the image, with a train of 15 or 20 comrades in two rows trailing behind her. The group is walking down the sidewalk on a New York City street. Ms. Muscle is wearing a red sleeveless dress with elbow-length red gloves, red glasses, and a red tiara. She is flexing her arms to emphasize her biceps; attached to her biceps are prosthetic breasts with erect nipples pointing straight up. Her comrades are also flexing their biceps behind her.

Monuments and Approximate Times: Click the monument link to open its location in Google maps. Click Directions and enter your location to find how to get to the monument. 12:30 Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial 1:45 Joan of Arc Monument 2:30 Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial 3:15 Women's Rights Pioneers Monument 4:30 Gertrude Stein Statue 4:55 Golda Meir Statue

Ms. Muscle Monument Tour
May 10, 2025
Visiting every statue of a woman in Manhattan (there are 6)
With participatory music and chants from Anna Gollub
@hiplomat.bsky.social

Walk all 6 miles, join along the way, or meet at one of the monuments.

Starting 12:30p Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial

Join #CriticalAI's DESIGN JUSTICE AI post-institute, a hybrid event featuring work by @vukosi.bsky.social, #HappyBuzaaba, #WesTaylor, #NourArafat, #DalakiLivingston, @designjustice.bsky.social, #MatthewStone, #LaurenGoodlad, #WebbKeane and others. Register here criticalai.org/2025/04/23/n...

I spent the weekend in Charleston, SC to celebrate my niece McKayla's graduation from the Citadel!!!

Update: I did not die in a plane crash.

Getting on a 737Max to Newark, scheduled to land in a storm, what could go wrong?

No Philosophy Booth tonight friends. Take care of yourself, be good to each other. 🥰

Are you arguing that "mental images" aren't real because they don't involve muscle tensions? On your view, if images are correlated with subtle contractions of eye muscles, would that support the claim that they are "real and experienced" without appeal to language games?

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Picture of a hands off protest in Maplewood.

Another picture of the protest. Lots of protesters under umbrellas.

1000 in the rain in Maplewood, NJ

"Philosophy" is a Greek term that means "love of wisdom". And "wisdom" is the internet handle used by Dominick from Wisconsin. We love you, Dom!

Philosophy Booth opens the first Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!
8pm-10pm Eastern
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TIL there's a twitch schedule.

It requires a minimum weekly stream, it won't tolerate our rebellious once-a-month routine.

Do you have urgent philosophical questions that require immediate attention? The dedicated staff at the Philosophy Booth are here to help! No concept too abstract, no paradox too puzzling, no modus too ponens.

First Friday of every month, which is TONIGHT!
8pm-10pm ET
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A four-quadrant graph titled "Apocalyptic Curve". The image is square with a thick green border. The title is in bold black text in the top left corner. The graph is a a thick, green, curved line that runs through each quadrant, a segment of an elliptic curve. The figure nearly circles the origin of the graph, but is flared out the right, with the top right end flaring off to positive infinity, and the bottom right flaring off to negative infinity, leaving the loop closed on the left side but open on the right. The axes of the graph are each labeled in a black font. At the top, the y-axis is labeled "Exogenous Apocalypse". On the far left, the -x-axis is labeled "Zombie Apocalypse". At the bottom, the -y-axis is labeled "Human-Caused Apocalypse". And on the right, the x-axis is labeled "Utopian Apocalypse". In the bottom right quadrant, a green star sits in the curve, with a label saying "You are here". A dashed black arrow points away from the star, to the northeast, approximately tangential to the green curve, and roughly in the direction of "Utopian Apocalypse".

If you're feeling disoriented, this map of the Apocalyptic Curve might help.